Edmond HoyleMr Hoyle's Games of Whist, Quadrill, Piquet Chess and Back-Gammon - London - Thomas Osborne et al., 1760 Book. Good. Hardcover. The twelfth official edition of Hoyle's Games. With the bookplate of William Fair, Esquire. Fairwas from the bordervillage Langlee, Scotland. He has been named inparliamentary papers andit is thereforepossible that he had a role in local government. A scarce edition, signed by both Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne. To the verso of the title page is a short advertisement regarding piracy of this text. Itstates that the book has been entered at Stationer's Hall and therefore, whoever prints a pirated editionshall be prosecuted along with the nine persons already caught. It states that the true editions are signed by Edmond Hoyle and Thomas Osborne. They also note that to reduce incentive to buy pirated editions, they have reduced the price which is stated to the title page as'three shillings, neatly bound'. This copy has been signed by both Hoyle, the author and Osborne, thepublisher. No date to the title page of this volume, dated from Copac. This book is a collection of rules and playof card games. Originally Hoyle publishedindividual treatises on different games such asbackgammon and quadrille. However, in 1748 he began releasing a collected edition, of which thiscopy is one of. This edition ofHoyles Games was one of the last to be published in the author's lifetime and to be signed by his hand. The fifteenth and sixteenth editions were published after his death and had his autograph reproduced by a woodblock. With two title pages, the first 'Mr Hoyles Games'has the signed advertisement to the verso, in addition to the edition information. The second title page follows the contents and is thefull title of 'A ShortTreatise. . 'Condition: In original full calf binding. Externally, sound with slight rubbing to the joints, extremities and spine. The joints are tender with the hinges also tender with cords showing. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown, William Fair Esquire of Langlee. Remnants of bookseller label, possibly Mackenzie to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright, first few pagesare slightly age toned. The odd spot throughout. Overall: GOOD..

EROTICA. DAMNED STUFF.Did you ever see such Damned Stuff? Or, So-Much-The Better. A Story Without Head or Tail, Wit or Humor. London: Prnted for C. G. Seyffert n Pall-mall 1760 - FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, pp. [viii], 168, contemporary calf, recently rebacked, raised bands between gilt rules, red leather label; lack half-title and last leaf of Contents, both of which are supplied in photocopy, pp. 1 -2 repaired, first three leaves of text dampstained, but clean after that. Mentions or discussions of this work appear in scholarly books on eighteenth-century erotica, e. .g, Karen Harvey: Sex and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2004), but it is really a fairy story with occasional snatches of possible flagellation or other such popular activities for the 18th century gallant. It was mentioned or reviewed in at least three periodicals, The Monthly Review for 1760 (which suggested the original was in French). The Critical Review confirmed the French origin: "This is a wretched translation of a silly attempt to humour in the French, with scarce any other addition than that of the title-page." Sir Walter Scott had a copy in his library at Abbotsford. ESTC T77689 locates copies in BL (2), NLS (Advocates); McMaster, Wisconsin-Madison, UCLA, and Penn. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

WETHERALD, R.The Perpetual Calculator: or, time's universal standard. In three parts. To which is annexed, an appendix, containing several useful articles relative to those important sciences. A plain and easy introduction to chronology.... An account of the solar system.... pneumatics and hydrostatics... 8vo in fours, [v]iii, 150[2]pp including list of subscribers,various tables, text figures, folding table after page [142].A Quaker by birth and persuasion, Rowland Wetherald (1727-1791) ran a school at Great Salkeld, near Penrith, where 'boarding might be had on easy terms'. This, his sole published work- a general mathematical, astronomical and scientific vade-mecum, was supported by the subscription of 171 copies, the large majority going to Cumbrian households. However two significant buyers were the Newcastle booksellers Thomas Slack (12 copies) and William Charnley (6 copies). Sykes' 'Local Records' notes that Wetherald 'settled at Sunderland a year or two after publication of the above very curious work' and this is confirmed by Hunt who states he became that town's first printer. Hunt cites the 1771 work 'The world to come' by G.L.; this George Larkin piece is found in ESTC together with a 1780? 'Choice collection of poems in Cumberland dialect....'- no further Wetherald printed items have been located.

John GuysePractical Expositor; or an exposition of the New Testament in the form of a paraphrase with occasional notes...and serious recollections...: complete in 3 volumes. Volume one, Four Evangelists volume 2: Acts of the Apostles, Epistle to the Romans and First and Second Epistles to the Corinthians Volume 3: Epistle to the Galatians...to end of Revelation matching 3 vol set 1760/1 xii 795/xiv 809/xviii 924pp incl index full leather 4vo bindings worn on corners little loss spine head/tail v 1 & 2, chipped title and vol labels, marbled epps, discol free epp, stoutly bound, clean text, pp edges sl discol

MILTON, JOHN PARADISE LOST: A Poem in Twelve Books and PARADISE REGAIN'D: A Poem in Four Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes and Poems Upon Several Occasions. London. John Baskerville for J and R. Tonson. 1760
2 volumes royal octavo 10 x 6 1/2 inches, HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND IN FULL, NEAR PERIOD, RED MOROCCO. 5 raised bands, round gilt emblems in compartments, lettered on spine, two gilt fillets to the boards, all edges gilt, with fine marbled endpapers. In good condition. Paradise Lost from the text of Thomas Newton- title, xxviii, 416 pages. Included in the preliminaries is an impressive list of subscribers. Paradise Regained- title (2), lxxii, 3-390 pages. Two small round private collectors stamps - from the Selbourne Library. A lovely copy of this Baskerville edition.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann. DESCRIPTION DES PIERRES GRAVÉES DU FEU BARON STOSCH DÉDIÉE A SON ÉMINENCE MONSEIGNEUR LE CARDINAL ALEXANDRE ALBANI. pp (ix manuscript), (viii), xxxii, 596, (xxxi corrections), two engraved plates by I. A. Schweickart.
With a 9 page manuscript copy of an essay by Winckelmann bound in before the printed text.
Two versions were printed, one unillustrated and one deluxe edition with a portrait of Stosch and eleven of Schweickart's engravings of the gems. Several copies of the printed work can be found in institutions, some with, some and without engravings, but both rarely appear on the market (Brunet).
Johan Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768), born in Stendal, west of Berlin, murdered in Trieste; a key figure in the eighteenth century knowledge and interpretation of the history of classical art. Indeed Winckelmann was significant as the forerunner of modern art historians, recounting the art of past cultures not merely as a chronological series of events or artists' lives, but in terms of evolving styles. He was a great friend of the painter Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-79), who painted his portrait, and with whom he enjoyed a flamboyant relationship and lived for a time in Rome.
His writings influenced not only a new science of archaeology and art history but Western painting, sculpture, literature and even philosophy, and he was highly praised by Goethe and other writers and artists.
Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art (1764) was one of the first books written in German to become a classic of European literature.
Before Winckelmann's time archaeology did not exist even as a concept, let alone as a science. Greek and Roman antiquities were simply appropriated from ancient sites by the rich and powerful of Europe. Winckelmann spent several months touring the sites and collections in Naples and Herculaneum, as well as the temples at Paestum, and his stature as an archaeologist was rewarded in 1763 when he was appointed prefect of antiquities at the Vatican. Within a year or two his standing as a guide had become such that a conducted tour with Winckelmann formed the high point of many a sovereign's visit to Rome.
Winckelmann's first detailed, scholarly book was published in Florence in 1760; his catalogue of the collection of gems assembled by Baron Stosch - one of the most important and representative groups at the time of antique engraved gems.
The catalogue, "Description des Pierres Gravees du feu Baron de Stosch", dedicated to his patron Cardinal Albani, was published in the hope of finding a purchaser for the entire collection, and eventually the majority of this collection was purchased by Frederick the Great.
Winckelmann set new standards for research into the history of antique precious stones: he described them precisely, organized them according to their style, and provided interpretations of the mythological motifs engraved on them.
The manuscript "Nachrichten von dem beruhmten Stoschischen Museo in Florenz, an den Herrn Legationsrath von Hagedorn...", was one of a number of essays Winckelmann wrote for the "Bibliothek der Schonen Wissenschaften und der Freien Kunste", edited by Christian Felix Weisse, Leipzig, 1759. It was later published in "Johan Winckelmann's Samtliche Werke", volume 1, "Kleinere Auflage uber Gegenstande der Alten Kunst, 1756-59" edited by Joseph Eiselein, published Donauoschingen, 1825, p 274-283.
In the Nachrichten he refers to his "Description..." in progress and mentions the two gems,"die seltensten", illustrated in the book, as together encompassing "the entire system of Estruscans' art". The Tydeus gem and its more famous partner, the Stosch gem, or the "Five Heroes before Thebes", as Winckelmann called it, is the oldest extant work of Etruscan art, and a candidate for the oldest surviving masterpiece of all art.

Smith, Adam, economist (1723-1790).Autograph letter signed. Glasgow, 12. III. 1760. 1760. 4to. 1½ pp. on bifolium with address on verso. To the 1st Earl of Shelburne, regarding the health of his son Thomas, then Smith's student and lodger: "My Lord / It gives me as much pleasure to write to your Lordship today as it gave me pain to write to you by last post. The Doctors Predictions have upon this occasion been literally and exactly fulfilled. Mr. Fitzmaurice had the inght before last a very slight attack of his fever which he was relieved from by a gentle sweat; and last night he had a bleeding at the nose which Dr. Black regards as a perfect crisis. He has since been entirely free from all feverish ailments or symptoms [...]". Written in ink in a neat cursive hand, approximately 23 lines to the page, with a few corrections in the text, addressed on the verso of the second sheet, annotated: "Mr. Smith concerning my son Thomas's health". Sometime folded for posting, some light soiling along the folds. - Adam Smith was appointed professor of logic, and then of moral philosophy at Glasgow in 1751 and 1752 respectively. As a professor, Smith took students into his house, offering both supervision in studies and board and lodging. Of these students, the names of only two have come down to us: Henry Herbert, later Lord Porchester, and Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice. In 1758 Gilbert Elliot, later Lord Minto, recommended Glasgow University rather than Oxford for the education of the younger son of the 1st Earl of Shelburne (the maternal grandson of the economist William Petty). Petty-Fitzmaurice (1742-93) had earlier been educated at Eton. For two years from 1759, Thomas Petty-Fitzmaurice lived with Adam Smith. After Glasgow he went to St Mary's Hall, Oxford, in 1761, was called to the English Bar in 1768 and became a Member of Parliament in 1762. In 1779 he set up as a linen merchant and established a bleaching factory at Llewenny in Wales, as his Irish estates were unproductive. He was reported to have lived on "the most intimate terms with Johnson, Hawkesworth and Garrick". The total number of recorded letters written by Adam Smith is surprisingly small - about 200, of which at least 24 are only known from published sources, which leaves about 176 letters surviving, virtually all in public collections. There are only 11 surviving letters of Adam Smith's predating his correspondence with Lord Shelburne. - Provenance: Bowood, home of the Earls of Shelburne. Mossner, Correspondence of Adam Smith, no. 46 (full transcription included; deletions by Smith are not recorded).

Roberts, James.The Sportsman's pocket companion: being a striking likeness or portraiture of the most eminent race horses and stallions [...] drawn by James Roberts and engraved by Henry Roberts. London, printed for R. & R. Baldwin, c. 1760. 1760. 8vo (223 x 148 mm). 40 engraved plates, some with vignette at foot, engraved index leaf. Modern olive green morocco gilt by Eighton, covers with triple gilt fillet, spine in six compartments, gilt lettered direct in second, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine series of plates, each depicting a famous horse with his rider or stable-hand, and recording its pedigree, qualities and racing record, together with the owner's name. The final plate shows the most famous of all, the Godolphin Arabian (here called the "Bay Arabian, the property of the Right Hon.ble the Earl of Godolphin"), foaled in Yemen around 1724: "This extraordinary horse became a private stallion soon after his arrival in this kingdom, and got a greater number of fine horses of just temper with superior speed than any Arab ever did. He was the Sire of Lath, Dismal, Cade, Bajazet, Babraham, Phenix, Dormouse, Regulus, Skewball, Sultan, Blanck, Slugg, Noble, Tarquin, Blossom, the Godolphin Gelding, Shepherdess, Amelia, and many others besides stallions and brood mares, all in the highest esteem; he died at Hogmagogg Hills, Dec. 1753, in the 29th year of his age". - Among the other horses are Lath, the Godolphin Arabian's offspring by Roxana; Basto (son of the Byerly Turk); Old Scar, whose ancestry included the Oglethorpe Arabian and Darcy's Yellow Turk, etc. The horses pictured all ran between 1708 and 1755. The first edition was published in about 1760. Rare, only two copies recorded in ABPC/AE Online. ESTC records two issues, one published and sold by Henry Roberts, the other printed for R. and R. Baldwin (as here): just one location is given for the first issue (Winterthur), and one for the second (BL). Huth records the work under a variant title, and also notes an 1820 edition. - Plate 12 shorter at margins, some spotting and browning, heavier at margins. A most handsome copy. Huth 38.

Fox, JohnThe Book of Martyrs : Containing an Account of the Sufferings and Death of the Protestants In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. Illustrated with Copper-Plates. Originally Written by Mr. John Fox : And now Revised and Corrected with a Recommendatory Preface By the Rev.d Mr. Madan. London: John Fuller, 1760. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. In brown leather boards with six raised bands and title label to spine. Illustrated with 60 full page copper plate engravings including frontispiece and pictorial title page. Both boards separated, frontispiece mostly separated, drying and wear to spine leather, scattered spotting and browning to text block but overall pages are solid and clean. Extra shipping charges will apply for this large and heavy book.